Skills (primarily aimed at sophomores and seniors) • Creating Your Unique Personal Development Plan: Explore Your Options (primarily for sophomores) • How to be an Effective Sophomore (primarily for sophomores) • Effective Oral/Written Communication (primarily aimed at juniors) • Developing Research Skills in Engineering and Science (primarily for juniors) • Writing and Presenting an Engineering-Based Business Case (primarily aimed at juniors) • “Good Enough for Government Work?” Ethics and Professionalism in Research (primarily aimed at juniors) • General Graduate School Information and Where to Find It (primarily for juniors/seniors) • Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (primarily aimed at seniors
, "DEVELOPING ELEMENTARY ENGINEERING SCHOOLS: FROM PLANNING TO PRACTICE AND RESULTS," presented at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, TX, Apr 18, 2012.[12] M. S. Zarske, J. F. Sullivan, L. E. Carlson, and J. L. Yowell, "Teachers teaching teachers: Linking K-12 engineering curricula with teacher professional development," in Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2004: American Society of Engineering Education.[13] D. Duncan-Wiles and T. R. Jones, "Work in Progress: Changes in Elementary Teachers‘ Noticing of Engineering Pre/Post Professional Development with Engineering," Proc
hashad more experience. The program emphasizes solving ill-defined problems; hence, participantsneed to be able to get the gist of the problem in the pre-planning stage prior to engaging inbuilding and using the robots. As such, program coordinators should reverse engineer tasks andtimes allotted to each phase of the engineering design.Lastly, several mentors pointed out that program administrators should expand the programactivities to expose the middle school youth to other areas within the STEM fields. For example,one mentor stated: expand more on the STEM aspect. Because it’s heavily [focused on] engineering and maybe mathematics, but less towards technology and science. Because we’re mainly doing robotics. Even in
development of idea generation, flexibility, and originality, a criticalaspect in the professional formation of engineers [8].While technical skill is important, developing the social components of engineering is alsocritical [5], [6], [14]. Course-specific, technical knowledge consists of a set of “big ideas,”including content (concepts, principles, and theories) and practices (planning and carrying outinvestigations, analyzing and interpreting data, engaging in argument from evidence) [15]–[17].In the sophomore Material Balance course studied here, for example, big ideas could includeconservation of mass and reasoning with chemistry. Engineering is also inherentlysociotechnical, as the technical work performed is for the benefit of consumers or
accountabilityfor knowledge acquisition [11] while resulting in increased student achievement outcomes in theSTEM disciplines [12].Flipped Learning in EngineeringFlipped learning leverages many of the best practices of active learning described above, bymoving some, or all, of the direct instruction out of the classroom (often through videos andonline learning systems), leaving the classroom time to be devoted to more hands-on, active, andcollaborative learning activities [13]. The flipped learning approach has gained significantmomentum since 2012, with 27% of higher education faculty surveyed (in all disciplines) statingthat they planned to incorporate flipped classroom techniques and 29% saying that they werealready using a version of flipped delivery
-schwarzman-college-of-computing-1015[Accessed January 31, 2019].[59] UTSA Today. “UTSA expands Downtown Campus with a National Security CollaborationCenter and planned new School of Data Science,” September 6, 2018. https://www.utsa.edu/today/2018/09/story/NSCC_SDS-announcement.html [Accessed January31, 2019].[60] Georgia Institute of Technology. “Core Requirements by Major,”https://admission.gatech.edu/transfer/course-requirements-major [Accessed January 31, 2019][61] USNA News Center. “Naval Academy Cybersecurity Program Receives ABETAccreditation,”September 21, 2018https://www.usna.edu/NewsCenter/2018/09/NAVAL%20ACADEMY%20CYBERSECURITY%20PROGRAM%20RECEIVES%20ABET%20ACCREDITATION.php[Accessed January 31, 2019][62] F. Bruni. “Aristotle’s Wrongful
Mechanics of Materials course at Jacksonville University(JU) was structured to devote student laboratory time to creating, building, and testing new andnovel sample coupons for the PASCOEX-5515A Materials Stress-StrainExperiment [2] (Figure 1) in collaborationwith Engineer Inc., an engineeringeducation technology social enterprisestart-up. The company plans tocommercialize viable products resultingfrom the student’s work. The course’sresulting impact on student achievementof Learning Outcomes was interpretedand assessed using pre/post differenceswithin indirect and the direct assessments.Background Figure 1: Students learn how to use the PASCO EX-5515A
summer camps.The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. First, we will discuss the importance ofinformal STEM education and describe in detail the precepts of the design of camp activities.Next, we will share some of the activities, including our major hands-on activity: a solar panelproject. We will also provide an assessment of the summer camp based on pre- and post-surveydata from the students. Finally, we will summarize our findings and lessons learned, and offerfuture plans going forward.2. Importance of Informal STEM EducationThere are many factors that influence student persistence in pursuing STEM degrees and careers.These factors range from the ways that students are exposed to STEM concepts both formallyand informally
Comm Lab is staffed by its own team of 5-15 peer tutors,who are graduate students and postdocs selected from that department, and offer tutoringservices to any department affiliates, from undergraduates to faculty. Each team is supervised bya 50% full time equivalent (FTE) manager, who acts as the departmental liaison and leadsstrategic planning and outreach for the team. Funding for both staffing and operations isprovided by the department (ultimately deriving from the institutional budget). Each Comm Labis physically headquartered in its respective department and uses local “consumer research,” aswell as the knowledge of its own peer tutors, in order to design communication interventions forthat department in addition to tutoring, such as
approach to the activity, a significant number of students useda function-based approach, and most of the students took a mixed-approach when representingtheir mental models. The rubric scoring the students’ elicited mental models expects acomponent-based representation; consequently, it is not possible to say whether the students’function-based representations have changed from sophomore year to senior year.To ensure that students understand that a component-based representation is desired, thelanguage in the instrument will be further clarified from the previous version. Future plans forthe mental model instruments also include providing an example of a completed mental modelinstrument prior to the students performing the activity to aid
]) mainly so that we can focus on the moreimportant Coverage metric. Only correlations are presented here – deeper statistical analyses onthe data is pending. Effects of gender, pre-course GPA and numerical course grade on Coverageare not explored. No attempt was made to determine directly the reason for the trends inCoverage (e.g. by surveying students), but this is planned for future studies.ConclusionsThe data presented in this paper on the extent of video viewing of pre-class videos (as measuredby the Coverage metric) in three flipped undergraduate engineering courses (numerical methodsfor engineers, fluid mechanics and engineering statics) with almost identical course structuresthat were taught by the same instructor, suggest the following
of problem solving (2 Totals 67% 44% 51%problems per session with 11sessions), 12 instances were stopped Table 2 Mean scores by problem and condition.by the researchers before theparticipants felt they had completed solving the problem. Researchers stopped these instancesbecause the planned 15-20 min were exhausted. Scores between problems were correlated at amedium level (R2=0.59). On an average, participants working alone received higher scores thanthose working in pairs (67% vs. 44%) and the first problem solved in each session receivedlower scores than the second (45% vs. 57%).7. DiscussionThe statics instructor who graded the solutions to the two problems (and from whose engineeringstatics
to sustain in collaborative pedagogical methods.Case of F2- Interpersonal rich collaborative learning F2 is a non-tenured faculty member in the engineering school’s foundations department,teaching various levels of calculus to first- and second-year engineering students. She acceptedan invitation to join the second cohort of the FLC, and admittedly, was intimidated at first by theidea of changing her teaching approach. “I was worried about the time [referring to the amountof planning and class time implementing collaborative learning would require]” F2 indicated inher reflection of initially agreeing to the participate in the FLC. Her experience was enhanced bythe integrated peer collaboration in which faculty members were partnered
whether the scale is at a micro-level.These small shifts may later become large cracks or fissures in the dominant frame against whichthese groups are organizing. For example, one activity at an OSH hacker meetup resulted inunplanned discussions about comfort, how to establish physically/mentally safe space, theproblems of masculinist and competition-based cultures in technoscientific work and research,and eventually led to a monumental change in mindset for a few individuals. But it also set thestage for changing dynamics at the host space and the future planning of restorative healingcircles, workshops, and methods in conversation with the participant who was experiencingexclusion, discomfort, and frustrations. Instead of animosity and being
credits) • Intrapreneurship (3 credits) • Mobile Applications for Entrepreneurs (3 credits) • Technology Entrepreneurship (3 credits)- At least 3 credits of Elective courses selected from the following list • Leadership and Management (3 credits) • Branding and Brand Management (2 credits) • Advanced Branding and Brand Management (2 credits) • E-Business Management (3 credits) • Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship (3 credits) • Business and Natural Environment (3 credits) Figure 3. Curriculum change driven by interdisciplinary educationThe minor was open to the JI students that have declared a major and are in good academicstanding. If planned well in advance of the senior year, the program should
independently in the context of anopen-ended, authentic, engineering problem.Advice for InstructorsWhile teaching laboratories through guided IBL requires significant initial planning, thisdecreases with subsequent deliveries, and guided IBL is more enjoyable and engaging foreveryone than standard labs. It is truly exciting to see students thinking for themselves andengaging. To make the time investment more manageable, consider redesigning only one lab perdelivery of the course rather than all of the labs at once.To provide the proper support for students who are not used to IBL, instructors should thinkthrough the process from the student’s perspective, considering their knowledge base anddiscomfort with a method that does not allow passive learning
Paper ID #26787Homework Assignment Self-Grading: Perspectives from a Civil EngineeringCourseDr. Kevin Chang P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow Kevin Chang, Ph.D., P.E., is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Univer- sity of Idaho, where he is focusing on traffic operations and safety, transportation security, and engineering education. Prior to his current position, Kevin was a traffic engineer with the King County Department of Transportation where he managed the Traffic Management Center and supervised the implementation of neighborhood transportation plans, livable communities, and
question prompts focus on weaknesses of the course and how the course could beimproved. Importantly, there were no comments about the analogies under these questionprompts. Also, there were no negative comments about the curiosity or creating value relatedassignments or activities.From an assessment viewpoint, the average of the analogy reflection was a high B. Studentsimproved their question formulation ability across the three question submission assignments byapproximately a full letter grade (10%), on average, according to the rubric. The assessment datafor the design projects was strong for the analysis, simulation, and test plans, but poor for thevalue propositions. This suggests more emphasis should be placed on developing valuepropositions
neverthelessimportant. Examples of equity and non-discrimination in design relate to transportation planning(civil engineering) [28], assistive technology [29], universal accessibility for people withphysical limitations [30], and artificial intelligence [31]. These design-related issues could bereadily integrated into a number of technical courses for a wide array of engineering disciplines.Right to Life and Security of Person – Article 3Article 3 of the UDHR states, “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person” [1].Technology is being used to document human rights abuses via tools including satellite imagery,remote sensing, and machine learning. Artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, and machinelearning can also be applied in numerous
success and close long-standing achievement gaps in STEMcourses (e.g., [1, 3, 4]). Nonetheless, actual adoption of these practices among universityinstructors has been quite slow [5, 6]. In this paper, we describe the methods and results of a multi-faceted interventiondesigned to foster widespread adoption of empirically validated instructional methods inEngineering. The intervention was part of a broader initiative at the University of Kansas (KU)to reform foundational undergraduate courses around evidence-based, student-centered teachingmethods. The redesign of foundational courses has been a key part of the institutional vision asarticulated in a 2011 strategic plan. To that end, the university invested in a program that is
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. If they did not continueor sustain their implementation of the active learning strategies, this may explain some of theobserved data in the post-participation grades. Additionally, developing successful teachingpractices takes time, and thus there could be delayed effects of implementation on studentachievement. This lag time, either in implementation of consistent active learning teachingpractices or in quality of active learning teaching in the classroom, could be an explanation forthe observed results. As such, we plan on continuing this analysis in the future to assess forpotential changes over time.As noted above, the project employed the RTOP classroom observations to provide a reliableand objective account of which faculty made
models of study abroad including co-op and research abroad and established meaningful connection for research and attraction of funded international graduate students. Maria started working at Texas A&M in 2005 as Assistant Director for Latin American Programs and in 2009 she was promoted to Program Manager for South America in the same office. During her time at the Office for Latin America Programs she created, managed and developed projects to enhance the presence of Texas A&M University in Latin American and to support in the internationalization of the education, research, and outreach projects of the university. She was charged with the development and implementation of a strategic plan for Texas A&M
. However, that being said, the overall approach is still very satisfying for academiclaboratory instruction, and the subpar performance demonstrates the challenges faced in thedesign of communication systems. Students get to see first-hand how the impairments impactquality.Beyond improvements to current methods, other modulation schemes need to be considered –plans for future work include flowgraphs for higher M-ary levels and other modulation formatsincluding ASK and QAM. Following these relatively straightforward implementations,flowgraphs to implement OFDM and DSSS are possible.Bibliography1. Bard, J. & Kovarik, V., “Software Defined Radio: The Software Communications Architecture,” Wiley Series in Software Radio, 2007.2. Reed, J
Education, vol. 29(5), pp. 611-623, 2004.[5] Gray, M., & Bergmann, B. R, “Student teaching evaluations,” Academe, vol. 89(5), pp. 44-46, 2003.[6] Hora, M. T., & Ferrare, J. J. “Instructional systems of practice: A multidimensional analysis of math and science undergraduate course planning and classroom teaching,” Journal of the Learning Sciences, vol. 22(2), pp. 212-257, 2013.[7] Kim, H., Babchuk, W.A., Heaton, R.M., & Perez, L.C, “At the STEM of the problem: A qualitative case study of department chairs’ perspectives on the culture of teaching. Proceedings of the 35st Annual Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult and Higher Education,” University of Central Oklahoma. Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2016.[8
two versions of their letter in CAD - onevertical and one horizontal - and developed a plan for creating color by changing filament.Additionally they had to ensure that the base of the brick had the correct design and dimensionsto fit onto the board. In 2017, student teams created bricks that depicted a scene, image ormemory of the University of Minnesota. The final change to Materials Processingthat occurred during the integration of CADand 3DP into the curriculum was the addition of lectures on the major additive manufacturingprocesses. Powder bed processes such as Selective Laser Melting (SLM) were discussed in thesame section of the course as traditional powder processing methods like compaction andsintering, for example. Since
to experience nurturing environments and reported higher levels of self-efficacy, content interest, and support than their peers at PWIs [8], [12]. Institutions with higherrates of persistence and graduation rates with STEM underrepresented minority students, reportincreased student involvement on campus, have welcoming environments, and encouragemeaningful connections with faculty, which are all factors in fostering social-belonging [8].Understanding how high-performing institutions create environments of social belonging and asense of belonging can provide a plan to increase rates of success and degree completion forminority engineering students.Evidence indicates that there is a relationship between campus involvement
that.Male Speaker: Yes, especially if it's just a TA thatis put in professor status but that does not know how Interviewer: Okay. Lets talk about academicto properly deliver a lesson like the way a professor support and help seeking?who has been teaching a long time does. Male Speaker: I have a few. For one, Dr. X, Dr. Y. Especially Dr. Y because he's really good inFaculty support for students with disabilities propulsion. I plan to stay close to him to learn as 7Interviewer: I see that. Have there been any much as I
to use, though not available forcheckout or use outside the Special Collections Reading Room. Additionally, the book has fallenout of print, likely around the time of the observed spike in 2017. Future students needing thebook will need to either locate a used copy, use the e-book version, or request it throughInterlibrary Loan as the author has no plans to update the book and release a new edition.Looking at the opposite side of the title frequency list showed that most books were borrowedonly once. A total of 83% of titles (1326) were requested once, 164 titles were borrowed twice(10%), 49 titles were borrowed three times (3%), and the remaining 51 titles were borrowed fouror more times (3%). This is higher than the 67% rate of titles
University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Dr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD research project on engineering education; she has served as a Co-PI on three research projects, including one